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~THE.
IRCLE
VOLUME36,NUMBER16
MARIST COLLEGE, POUGHKEEPSIE,
N. Y.
MARCH 1, 1990
Enrollment falls, stabilizes
among computer majors
by
DAN HULL
Staff Writer
After a serious decline in the number of students
enrolling
in
the
Division
of Computer
Science/Mathematics, the number of incoming
freshmen choosing majors in that division appears to
be stabilizing, according to Onkar Sharma, divisional
chairperson.
· Since 1984, the number of incoming freshman
choosing to major in computer science, mathematics
or computer mathematics, has dropped from 141 to
55
in 1987. But due to the introduction of a computer
information systems .major in 1988, that number
should start to increase, Sharma said.
The current number of freshman in computer
science/mathematics is 49, Sharma said he expects the
total number to rise to about
70
next year, primarily
because· of the information systems major.
The new major focuses on computer application in
business, Sharma said.
"If
a student completes a major in computer infor-
mation systems, the student has already taken-enough
courses (for) a minor in business," said Sharma.
The most drastic decline was in the computer science
major in which the number of incoming freshman
choosing the major dropped from 119 in 1984 to 30
in 1989.
"The decline in computer science enrollment is
drastic but this is a national phenomenon," said Shar-
ma, "this is not something which is pertinent to only
Marist College.'-'- ·
.
Sharma said the
decrease
came-
as a
surprise because
the demand · for computer programmers in the job
market is still high.
Another problem includes enrollment of computer
math majors. The number of incoming freshman com-
puter mathematics majors at Marist has dwindled from
13 in 1984 to zero in 1989. Also, students who have
chosen the major have tended to change to another,
Sharma said.
In 1984, the total credit requirement· for a major
in computer science was 57, plus Core/Liberal Studies
credits, and students were recommended to take
Calculus I and
II
during their sophomore year.
Students now majoring in computer science need
72
credits plus Core/Liberal Studies credits, and students
are advised to take Calculus I and
II
during their
freshman year.
In addition, the recommended sophomore year for
computer science majors· includes such courses as
Calculus
III,
Physics I and
II,
Computer Science
III,
Linear Algebra, and Probability and Statistics.
Computer science majors interested in an internship
are advised not to take electives during their freshman
and sophomore years.
·
. "One of the reasons why we think computer science
enrollment has gone down is because it is a rigorous
program.
It
is very demanding," Sharma said.
Sharma said that the retention and enrollment com-
mittee within the division has made goals to increase
the number of computer and math majors. He said
the committee is planning to visit community colleges
to establish (matriculation) agreements so that it
becomes easier for the student to transfer to a four
year college from a two year college.
Rolling car hospitaliz.es student
by
TOM HANNA
Staff Writer
A Marist student remains
hospitalized after suffering a frac-
tured pelvis in an accident behind
the college bookstore last week.
Junior Jeff Norman was admit-
ted to St. Francis Hospital . in
Poughkeepsie after being pinned to
around. He said he tried but was
a wall by his moving
.car
last
unable to get in the car to stop it.
Wednesday. The accident occurred
The car rolled over the curb and·
around 3:55 p.m. when Norman's
pinned him against the wall of the
1984
Honda began to roll down.the
bookstore.
driveway behind the Post Office
as
"The
car
just kept going,'' Nor-
he went to get his mail.
man said.
"I
slipped and got back
Norman said he saw his car roll ·
backwards and · begin to_ turn ...
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duririg Tuesday's tournament loss. The loss ended the Red
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Sharpenter. See story page 12.
Prof marches to the beat of a different drum
by
KERRIANN REILLY
Staff Writer
Tad Richards pulls out his guitar
and sings the words of a Buddy
Holly tune.
He's not one of the acts perfor-
ming in the River Room, his stage
is in a Marist East classroom.
Richards, an adjunct English in-
structor, uses unique, and
sometimes unorthodox, teaching
methods to spark the inter~t of his
students.
"How
I
teach and what
I
teach
is who
I
am,'' Richards~said. "I
cannot tell my students that I
understand something fully, it's so
dangerous to try and do that so
quickly. I always teach like I'm
teaching for the first time."
Although his style is anything
but conventional, Richards brings
his own experiences of learning to
the classroom and incoporates dif-
ferent methods to teach the
students.
His students probably
see
him
as
a dangerous liberal -
as a
reconstructive Hippie -
but while
sitting comfortably in his black
leather jacket and cowboy boots,
Richards said
this
look captures the
students' attention because
literature should
be
an interesting
medium, not a chore.
His life reflects this philosophy.
A native of Saugerties, N.Y.,
Richards spent most of his time in
the Woodstock area. Trying to find
his niche in the world, he spent two
years at Bard College, while his
stepfather was a professor of
.sculpture there for many years.
After Bard, Richards, still
an
undergraduate, was accepted into
Iowa University's graduate writing
program.
After he got his bachelor's ·
degree from Iowa, Richards· pur-
sued his interest in ·teaching at
Wenona State University in Min-
nesota for two years.
Then he returned to the Hudson
Valley and began teaching at
SUNY New Paltz. In 1970, he was
blacklisted from teaching for help-
ing student protestors while trying
to define the university's role in the
community, he said.
This blacklisting made Richards
a freelance writer for 15 years, un-
til his friend who was directing a
special activities program at Marist
encouraged his interest in the
college.
"My involvement at Marist and
the administration has always
been
kept at a "minimal for a good
reason,'' he said. "I've always
wanted to live 15 miles off campus
to separate myself from certain
things, but one of my major goals
after being accepted as part of the
Marist staff, was to break the wall
that exists between the student and
the teacher."
In order to accomplish this,
Richards said he tells his students
that learning is not one-sided - he
also learns from his students
especially in his poetry classes.
Because most people do not feel
comfortable with poetry. he said,
they try to mainstream it when it
really shouldn't be.
"That is why I present Buddy
Holly and Keats with my
guitar and
textbook, presenting mor~ than one
way to understand the words," he
said. "It really works."
But, he doesn't expect his
students to be poetry wizards after
taking his class. He said his only
goal for the students is to have
them define their personal goals
through poetry and music.
"I look at literature in a different
way,''
he said.
"If
the student's in-
terest is sparked, they are likely to
return to that spark. I assign cheap
paperbacks at no resale value
because it won't be worth the ef-
fort to return them. The student
will probably always have them,
knowing that he or she can return
to that spark."
Richards has followed his own
advice _; his love for poetry and
music has prompted his wide varie-
ty of interests.
He has published three screen
plays, recently finished building a
16-track recording studio in High
Falls,
N.Y., and wrote a spy novel.
In addition, Richards has a few
songs on small label albums and
wrote a song that he said Hank
Williams Jr. will soon perform.
While working with three part-
ners in a variety of projects in
Ulster and Dutchess County,
Richards hopes to get a new televi-
sion series off the ground at Opus
40
in Ulster County.
The television series
will
consist
of three shows,"each one featuring
two major contemporary
poets
and
a star reading the poetry, such
as,
Robin Williams reading e.e. cum-
mings or Merryl Streep reading
Emily Dickinson.
"I finally found out what poetry
means. · You have to have
something to say, but it has to be
so deep inside you that you can't
think about it while you're writing
it -
but how your saying it is im-
portant.
It
has to have a com-
municatjve power and the idea
about what you have to say just
comes along for the ride," said
Richards,
"In my classes, I try not to push
that lightbulb because I know it will
eventually come through in poetry,
fiction, or in the music in the minds
of the students."
Richards' involvement in coun-
try music has lead to the produc-
tion of two television shows center-
ing around country music and
those musicians presently touring,
and an encyclopedia of country
music of which Aprrentice Hall is
considering bu)ing.
"My activities outside the
classroom enhance what I always
try
to say to my students,'' he said.
"I
try to give them a sense that
there is something sensitive and
thrilling about the arts · -
something worth keeping."
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2
THE CIRCLE
ODD
s
&
ENDS
MARCH
1, 1990
Old hot wax topples into
the dark grave of digital
..
We liv'e in an age when
technology advances so quickly
that the stereo we just bought is ob-
solete before we can figure out
whether or not the instructions are
in English.
These advances, all in the name
of progress and a free-market
society, happen with such frequen-
cy that we barely notice them.
But we can't ignore a product
that dies a slow death right before
our eyes, something that was once
a part of nearly everyone's life.
Now it gasps its final breath, and
no one seems to care.
·
The death knell has been sound-
ed for the vinyl LP record. Out of
respect for the nearly departed, I'd
ask you all to join me in a moment
of silence ... (Take another minute
if you're really broken up, but I've
got to keep writing.)
Kieran Fagan
In
your
ear
reproduction of music ever made,
people naturally were curious to
hear it.
The quality of the sound on this
shiny little laser-encoded donut was
amazing. The clarity, the highs and
lows, every nuance of the music
came through without a single hiss,
pop or crackle.
Had people been more sensitive
at thf time, they would have realiz-
ed the obvious implications this
new format would have on the
future of LPs. Had they been even
more sensitive, they would have
heard the plaintive whimper of
groove-engraved vinyl platters in
record stores the world over.
33 1/3 LP, so I nobly took it upon
myself.
I soon realized that the only
reason I kept buying LPs was
because, short of mortgaging the
house behind my parents' respec-
tive backs, there was absolutely no
way I could afford the luxury of a
CD player.
This was a troubling realization
for me that opened a proverbial
can of worms in my soul.
Was I not a lover of the skips
and scratches? Was there not
something admirable in a person
who, in the face of technological
adversity, holds strong to his
chosen cause and music format?
Was I not a martyr for facing the
scorn and ridicule of a society in
which "record buyers" were fast
becoming the modem equivalent of
lepers?
It's true that vinyl LPs had a
long and hearty life and that their .
obsolescence came after many
years of glory. It took time before
cassette sales even threatened LPs,
and the eight track tape was bare-
ly a flash in the pan, not to men-
tion the most impractical piece of
trash to hit home stereos. It deserv-
ed to die quickly.
Even as cassettes became the
more popular format, LPs still en-
joyed a loyal following and respec-
table sales. Sure, vinyl could be
scratched or warped, but cassettes
could suffer drop-outs and be
devoured in seconds by a sinister
tape deck.
A small but staunch group of
musical purists, who had grown
not only to accept skips and pops
on vinyl recordings but to ap-
preciate the earthy appeal of such
imperfections, defended their
stacks of wax and spit upon the
new technology. They were a bit-
ter lot.
Of course not. My reasoning for
defending LPs was so much hot
air. Anyone with a decent pair of
ears can tell that the sound of a CD
is a billion times superior to the
sound of a vinyl record. For
reasons unknown, there .are still
some people who buy only vinyl.
Maybe it's for nostalgic or roman-
tic reasons, maybe it's the money
factor.
LIVINGSTON TAYLOR
Still, the passing of the vinyl LP
is not an easy event for me to ac-
cept. The scratches and skips may
have caused untold frustrations,
but when you got used to them they
Editors' Picks
• Irish music at the· Rhinecliff
Hotel, Sunday 4 to 6 p.m.
Both had their flaws, so they
split the music-loving public and
maintained their own separate
share
of listeners.
Being a collector of LPs since I
received my first one at age five (I
think it was a "Free to Be You and
Me" record),
l was skeptical of
CDs when they appeared.
were as.much a part of the DlU~ic - •
The last h_oc_key
game of the
as the singer's voice or
the
guitars.
Then the axe fell. Sound
engineers and other hi-tech inven-
tors spent years on a new format
for music, and at the same time dug
a grave for LPs so deep that if you
buried all the -LPs ever made - in-
cluding 78's and 45's - you'd stiJJ
have room left for every piece of
Menudo merchandise ever sold in
San Juan. The CD was born.
I wasn't one of those purists, but
I refused to be impressed by these
discs that within months would
render my collection of records
useless and completely obsolete. As
a tactic of revenge, I decided that
I was going to remain faithful to
vinyl and never buy a CD player.
They gave the LP character and
year, sa:turda, y at 10 p.m.
.
·personality.Even the background
hiss added a certain something to
•
T1"ckets for the figure skating
the listening experience.
championships at Nassau Coliseum
• Dinner at Foster's Coach House
Tavern in Rhfnebeck
The compact disc was introduc-
ed to the public in the early
eighties. Hailed as the truest
This idealism held up for a few
years. At first I was certain that it
was a matter of principle. Someone
had
to
carry on the tradition of the
But we don't want the imperfec-
tions anymore. So the vinyl LP
finds its final resting place among
·the likes of the dodo bird, glass
milk bottles and the buffalo nickel.
May
it
rest in peace.
Kieran Fagan is The Circle's
music columnist.
Songwriter Livingston Taylor will perform in the ,:-heater tomor-
row at 8 p.m. Student tickets cost $5 and are available through
College Activities.
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Up
·to
Date
r■,;lhat's
U_J
Entertainment
Tonight
• In the mood for a captivating
movie? Stop by Donnelly 245 for this
week's foreign film, "General Della
Rovere." This 1959 Italian film stars
Vittorio De Sica, Hannes Messemer
and Sandra Milo. The 7:30 p.m. film is
also on Friday and admission is free.
Friday
• Guitarist and songwriter Livingston
Taylor will perform in the college
Theatre at 8 p.m., with special guest
Paul Strowe. Tickets cost
$5
and are
available at the College Activities Of-
fice· or Theatre ticketbooth.
Saturday
• At 9 p.m., Circle K
will sponsor a
dance in the college dining hall.
Sunday
• Attention moviebuffs. Come see
the Marx Brothers Film Festival featur-
ing "Duck Soup" and "Animal
Crackers" at 7 and 9:45 p.m. in the
Theatre.
Wednesday
• The Marist College News program,
every Wednesday at 8 p.m. on Cam-
pus Channel 8.
Thursday
• "Bust a Move" on March 8 with
Young MC and Sybil at the Mid- Hud-
son Civic Center. Tickets cost $17.50
and are available at the Civic Center
Box office and all Ticketmaster outlets.
For more information, call 454-3388.
Coming Events
· • The Marist College Singers will
perform work frqm Mozart at . West
Point on March 4, at 3:30 p.m. m the
Cadet Chapel. The concert is free and
open to the public.
• On March 10, at 8 p.m. Asolo On
Tour presents the haunting comedy,
"Blithe Spirit," at the Bardavon Opera
House. For tickets. call 473-3388.
• Attention all you Irish and the Irish
at heart. Join in the St. Patrick's Day
parade in downtown Peekskill on
Thursday, March 15.
• Ringling Brothers and Barnum &
Bailey Circus will be performing at the
Nassau Coliseum March 20-26. For
tickets call (516) 794-9303.
• The 1990 Tour of World Figure
Skating Champions is coming to !he
Nassau Coliseum on Sunday, April 1
at 2 p.m. Tickets cost $35 or $22.50
For more information, call (516)
794-9303.
I
M
I
aking _the Grade
• Juniors interested in taking the
course "Marriage and the Family" in
Fall 1990 are invited to attend an in-
formational meeting tomorr<>w in the
Learning Center classroom. A similar
session for sophomores will be held on
Friday, March 9.
Health
• Workout for the American Heart
Association at "Dance for Heart," on
· Sunday, ·March 25 at .the Mccann
Recreation Center. Collect pledges for
the number of minutes danced. All par-
ticipants will receive a free T-shirt.
Prizes
will
also be awarded. For more
information, call 454-431
O.
Analyst to speak tonight
on Soviet economy
Richard E. Ericson, one of the
most respected analysts of contem-
porary Soviet affairs, will speak
about the changing Soviet economy
at 7:30 tonight in the Theater.
Ericson, a permanent faculty
member at the W. Averall Har-
riman Institute for Advanced Study
of the
Soviet Union and an
Economics professor at Columbia
University, has monitored and
analyzed Soviet reform since it
began in the mid-1980s.
He has written more than 30 ar-
ticles and book chapters on the
Soviet economy, including a
preface to the recent book "The
Breaking Point: Revitalizing the
Soviet Economy."
Sponsored by the Division of
Management Studies, the lecture is
free and open
to
the public.




















































THE CIRCLE, MARCH
1, 1990
Next five years mapped in strategic plan
Note: The recently published
.
report, "Anticipating the 1990s: A
Strategic Plan for Marist College;
1990-1995," charts developments
in
enrollment,
retention,
academics, student Jife, informa-
tion technology and resource plan-
ning. In the coming weeks, The
Circle
will
examine more specificaJ.
Jy why and how Marist will change
in the next five years.
by
Bl
.
LL JOHNSON
Editor
FolJowing the dizzying expan-
sion of the last decade, the ad-
ministration has developed a com-
prehensive strategy to plot a course
for the 1990s.
Commissioned in June 1988 by
President Dennis J. Murray, the
Strategic Planning Committee of
administrators, faculty and
students set out to examine the
strengths and weaknesses of the
school and to chart its next five
years.
The committee's 75-page report
outlines general and specific obser-
vations and recommendations in
six areas: enrollment; retention,
how
many
students
stay;
academics; student life; informa-
tion technology, how to make most
use of the Marist-IBM Joint Study;
and resource planning, how ad-
ministrators will fund what they
want to do.
The strategic plan will be
presented to the president and put
before the board of trustees for ap-
proval later this semester, said Ex~
ecutive Vice President Mark
Sullivan, who is in charge of the
project. Thereafter, the plan will
guide college policy.
The plan addresses how to im-
prove the academic and social life
on campus and concentrates. on
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - to the plan.
The plan
for Marist:
1990-95
directing resources toward select
areas. The plan "forces Marist to
accept a sense of limits," Sullivan
said
.
One of the assumptions the
report makes is that "at present,
our capacity to serve the current
population of students is near max-
imum." Consequently, enrollment
among resident students will level
off in the next five years, according
At the same time, enrollment
among
:
other segments of the stu-
dent body will increase, Sullivan
said, because those students
will
generate additional revenue
without needing college housing.
While the report targets expan-
si"on in some areas, one of its
themes is quality over quantity.
"Marist must embrace the notion
that it cannot continue to be all
things to all people," the report
says. "The competition for
students and limited resources will
not allow us to treat all programs
equally."
The plan focuses on seven
academic areas: general education,
backing up the Core/Liberal
Studies program; business, in-
cluding concentrations in human
resource management, industrial
psychology and international
business; computer science, in-
cluding possible expansion in
graphics and artificial intelligence;
-
communications; environmental
science; education; and public
policy.
The report also says the college
needs diversity. Although it
highlights business and com-
munications - which enroll half of
all students -
the report says the
various programs should be more
balanced.
Diversity among students, not
just majors, is anticipated. Minori-
ty recruitment is scheduled
to
in-
crease, as is recruitment outside
New York, Connecticut
and
New
Jersey, where more than
90
percent
of all Marist
students
live.
3
Seniors scramble for an edge in the job hunt
by
MIKE O'FARRELL
Staff Writer
While some seniors are concentrating on resume
writing and interviewing skills, Jon Petrucci is grow-
ing a
·
beard.
Petrucci, a senior accounting major, was offered
a job late in the first semester and he accepted. "I'm
growing a beard now because the interview process is
over," he said with a laugh.
Starting September
1,
Petrucci will begin work as
a junior auditor with the big six accounting firm of
Ernst and Young located in Hartford, Conn.
"I interviewed with them in December and they of-
fered me the job right before finals," said Petrucci.
"It wasn't hard to accept."
The Career Development Office was important to
Petrucciin helping him get the interview. "They real
-
ly helped in terms of setting up the interview," he said.
"They got me iq the door. They did a great job."
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Passing the exam to be~ome a
·
certified P~blic Ac-
countant is one of Petrucci's main career
:
goals.
"Passing the CPA exam is so important, it opens
up so many different opportunities," he said.
"Star-
ting with a Big Six firm is also important; it is a big
step for me
.
"
\Vith a job waiting for him, Petrucci said he is en-
joying the remainder of his college days.
•
"It's a good feeling, and I don't have any Friday
classes so I'm really starting to enjoy the rest of the
semester -
that's one reason why I'm growing a
beard. I don't have to worry about interviews," said
the Waterbury, Conn., native.
But Petrucci is one of the lucky ones, according to
Deidre Sepp, director of the Career Development Of-
fice, because many Marist students are just beginn-
ing to send out the 50 or
100
resumes and go on those
interviews needed to get ahead in the job hunt.
"Late February to April is the big season for of-
fers," said Sepp.
"There
is a lot of interviewing go-
ing on now."
Sepp said most of the offers that come early go to
accounting majors (like Petrucci) or to engineering ma-
jors. Companies that hire those students like to have
their answers early, she said.
In order to have a successful job hunt, students need
to have a focus about the future. "Students need to
sit down and determine their expectations about what
lies ahead for themselves," she said.
The search for a job can be a very grueling one, Sepp
said. "Sometimes it can take up to three months for
a student to find a position," sh
.
e said.
"It
can take
100
resumes to generate three to five interviews. It's
a tough process."
Experience is the biggest plus in trying to find a job,
according to Sepp.
·
'!Employers look for variety.
An
interview or a
co-
op is going to to
·
go
·
a long way iii the job hunting
field," she said. "The more experience a person has,
the better off he will be in the end."
According to Sepp, some students postpone things
to the last minute.
"Some students have put things off and are just get-
ting started in the search. Now is the time to really
get going, the rush is on," she said.
Tina Conte, a senior from Hicksville, N. Y., admits
the process is frightening to her.
"I just finished getting my resume together and the
Career Development Office told me to send out 50
copies and that got me nervous," said Conte.
The psychology major said she thinks it will take
time before a job comes, but she said, "I know there
is a job out there for everyone."
Marist grad injured
in Route 9 accident
by
STEVEN MURRAY
· Senior Editor.
A Marist graduate was treated
and released at St. Francis Hospital
Monday afternoon after the vehi-
cle she was driving was hit by a
Central Hudson line truck on
Route 9 in front of the campus.
Aiison Brescia of Pine Plains,
N.Y.,
suffered neck injuries when
her 1988 Dodge Caravan was hit
broadside by the southbound Cen-
tral Hudson truck as she tried to
turn left into the North Entrance
at about 4:05 p.m.
The driver of the truck, Robert
Inglis, and a coworker who had not
been identified at press time, were
not injured.
Several witnesses said Brescia
had a green arrow to take the left
onto campus and that the truck ran
the red light.
Other witnesses agreed with Bat-
·
ta, but Town of Poughkeepsie
police Officer Frank Critelli said
many of the witnesses' testimony
cannot be counted on because of
their vantage points. Critelli said
that at the time of the accident, it
could not be determined who
was
at fault.
According to Critelli, a witness
who had "probably the best view"
of the accident, right next to the
Central Hudson truck, said that In-
glis was not at fault.
Critelli, who had already inter-
viewed Inglis, said he would inter-
\-iew Brescia as "Soon as she was
able.
Tim Massey, spokesman for
Central Hudson, said that at this
time, the company is more con-
cerned with Brescia's condition
than it is with the issue of who is
at fault.
Polish up your resume:
Job expo to be on campus
by
MIKE O'FARRELL
Staff Writer
More than 30 different
employers
will be on campus later this month
to help seniors in their quest for
·
a job.
The Marist Employer Expo will take place Wednesday March
28,
from
4
to
7
p.m. in the Campus Center Gallery
and
the Fireside
Lounge.
Deidre Sepp, director of Career Development, this is "the first large
scale employer exposition" at Marist. Sepp said other expos were more
"workshop orientated" and that this will be a much more comfor-
table way for student to talk with employers.
"It
is a very non-threatening way for
students
to investigate
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future," said Sepp.
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Employers in the fields of computer science, communications arts.
fashion, education, business, psychology and criminal justice are are
just some of areas in which employers were invited, according to Sepp.
Some of the companies that will be attending include: Bank of New
York, U.S. Customs Service, WTZA News, ABC/Capital Cities, IBM,
Peace Corps, New York State Police, Texaco, U.S
.
Office of General
Accounting, WKIP, Taconic Press, Internal Revenue Service and the
Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The sponsors said they also wanted
to
tap another major source
to get interviews for graduates -
the alumni.
At least, 10 companies will be represented by Marist alumni.
"Try-
ing to get Marist graduates to come back was important," said Sepp.
"They
have been there and we wanted them
to
come back and pass
on their experiences and some helpful information as well."
Some of the companies will have jobs available while others will
be giving information on certain careers and answering students ques-
tions about how to succeed, according to Sepp.
"There will be jobs offered, it happens. For the most part, this is
a way for students to learn more about certain fields and certain
employers. This is just one way touch base with companies and make
some contacts ..
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is just one slice of the job search,"
she
said.
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who lives at 73 Taylor Ave. in
Poughkeepsie, said the Central
Hudson truck "clearly ran the red
light," knocking Brescia's car in-
to the exit lanes of the North
Entrance.
"Our concern is with the driver
of the other vehicle," Massey said.
"No matter who is at fault, we'd
like to know if she's OK. We
haven't received a full report yet."
Brescia's age and condition were
unavailable at press time.
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1, 1990
_Weather, construction
keep potholes around
by
PATRICIA DE PAOLO
Staff Writer
Students
living
in
the
Townhouses have a bumpy
semester ahead of them.
Their parking lots have potholes.
According to Ralph Short, grounds
supervisor, the potholes will not be
repaired in the near future because
those lots are scheduled to be torn
Several of the potholes were
repaired with temporary filler three
weeks ago, but the filler has worn
away. Repairing the potholes on a
continuing basis can not be done
because of the cost, Short said.
Students
Jiving
in
the
Townhouses sai_p they were con-
cerned about the effect the potholes
may have on their cars.
"With front-wheel drive, the
'With front-wheel drive, the front of my car
is low, and the bottom of my car hits the
ground everytime I hit a pothole.'
up with the construction of the the
Dyson Center, and pothole
maintenance would not be
cost-eff~ctive.
The winter weather and the traf-
fic causes the asphalt to heave, said
Short.
"There's
very
little we can do at
this time of year. That's the pro-
blem," Short said.
Blacktop can only be made in
warm weather, he said.
front of my car is low, and the bot-
tom of my car hits the ground every
time I go through a pothole," said
Beth Mahoney, a senior from
Oakdale,
N.Y.
Students should report any
pothole-related incidents to their
Unit Coordinator or Residence
Director, said Joseph Leary, direc-
tor of safety and security. To date,
there have been no reports of car
damages due to the potholes, he
said.
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photo/Lynaire Brust
New cars, old problems. Potholes in campus roads and parking lots are making
tor
a
bumpy ride.
Brand new parking lots are
scheduled to be in place for the
Townhouses by September, Short
said.
Champagnat parking lot and
other roads on campus have also
been affected by the winter weather
because they were constructed with
a single base of asphalt instead of
the usual two layers, said Short
.
The issue of repairing and
replacing the major roads and
parking lots on campus will be ad-
dressed in the future, said Short.
For now, gravel and rocks from
the townhouse potholes will remain
in the parking lots, according to
Short. The expense of both labor
and materials are keeping the
school from removing the gravel
now, Short said.
"We don't want to clean it up
now because winter is not over,"
he said.
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to his brother -
that his interest
in the game was rekindled.
"People don't realize there's a
After a four-hou_r chess game,
lot of fun things to do with chess,"
Craig Fisher had won.
said Fisher.
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One "thing" FisherJ.s~~9~
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on is putting
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together a chess duo
Marist, had beaten the man who
at Marist. He said that the main
would go on to win the Poughkeep-
goal of the club would be "to have
sie Winter Swiss Tournament.
fun and play chess."
Although he lost the overall
"I think there is a lot of good
tournament; no one can call Fisher
potential at Marist for chess," he
a- loser when it comes to chess.
said. "In watching the games on
A
self-proclaimed
Feb. 15, many people played good
"chessoholic," Fisher is the presi-
thoughtful games."
dent of the Poughkeepsie Chess
Fisher's enthusiasm for the game
Club and director of the U.S.
can be seen with the illustration of
Chess Federation.
two kings standing in the middle of
Fisher was first taken by the
a chess board on the wall above his
game when he was 8 years old when
office desk.
Craig Fisher
is proof of this.
The USCF ranks its members ac-
cording to a point system.
he would often beat his brothers
Fisher explained that chess is a
and sisters.
"tremendous hobby which students
At the top is Grand Master with
2,500 points, Master with 2,200
points, Expert with 2,000 points,
Class A with 1,800 points, Class B
with 1,600 points, Class C with
But it wasn't until 7 years after
can keep for the rest of their life."
college - when Fisher lost a game
And the club's 86-year-old member
Nationalism 9ften cause of strife
by
TINA LaVALLA and BRIAN McNELIS
Staff Writers
'"
Nationalism is a major cause of the the recent
upheavals in the communist world and many of the
wars in history, said Richard Atkins, chairperson of
the Division of Humanities in a lecture on Friday in
the Fireside Lounge.
"Nationalism is the most powerful ideology of
modem times," said Atkins. He defined nationalism
as the qualities that people have in common, such as
culture, religion and traditions. It is a "form of
solidarity," he said.
Atkins also spoke about the history of nationalism
in Europe. He said it first became a factor in Europe
in the 14th and 15th centuries with the arrival of the
middle class in Europe.
German reunification is a
'scary prospect.' 'Nationalism is
the most powerful ideology of
modern times. It is a form of
solidarity.'
The middle class were the first to show a glimmer
of nationalism, by thinking of "a?stract id~ntities."
"(They) were a different br~
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broad
horizons, the earner::. of nauonahsm, he said.
In later centuries, national monarchs ro5e: to a?·
vance signs of change, Atkins said, espec1~1ly m
England and France where urbanization and hteracv
helped nationalism to ·grow and become a "binding
force."
The 14th, 17th and 18th centuries were important
in the role of nationalism. He said these were times
in which there were higher levels of national
consciousness.
Atkins used the French army as an example of na-
tionalism. Their army gave the French a sense of uni-
ty and nationalism, which was one of the reasons that
Napolean was so powerful, he said.
Nationalism was also a factor in both world wars,
said Atkins. Stalin called on Russian nationalism to
get more enthusiasm for the war and it was successful.
As for nationalism today, Atkins was asked what
he felt about a reunified Germany. He replied that it
was a "scary prospect," and that it would "dwarf all
other eastern countries." Germany would become too
big, he said.
Most of the communist nations are "nationalists at
heart" in that countries such as Romania were bound
to break awav from the mother country.
In the future
,
Atkins said he believes there will in-
e,.itably be a long period of tension between the coun-
tries in Eastern Europe and the USSR because no one
can really agree on the question of borders and where
they are supposed to
be.
In addition, Atkins said that the rebuilding of the
many economies in ruin will prove harder than most
have predicted. Of course, he said, some will always
try to stop the current progress because they would
like to ha..-e the old security of a system they know
well, one with jobs health care and central
management.
1,400 points and Class D with
1,200 points.
Fisher is an Expert -
the class
consisting of 6.5 percent of 70,000
rated chess players in the nation
.
The average chess player is Class C
and has about 1,400 points.
Even with an insatiable interest
m chess, Fisher finds time to teach.
Fisher began as a full-time visitor
at Marist in January 1989. Now, he
teaches mainly graduate courses .
He said that graduate students have
such
"wide and
diverse"
backgrounds that he has to plan to
be flexible and dynamic to make
class interesting.
"I like to bring out their (the
students') ideas in class, I think
they're learning a lot," said Fisher.
Fisher earned his bachelors of
science degree at SUNY Oswego,
his masters in math at Ball State
University. He is now taking
courses to prepare for his
doctorate.
Before he
started
teaching at
Marist, the attraction of big bucks
drew Fisher to IBM.
He became
.
a world-wide infor-
mation systems audit manager, a
job in which he checked for pro-
tection against computer
viruses.
But after 20 years Fisher was tired
of traveling and decided to return
to his roots in Poughkeepsie and
teach at Marist.
"It's fun to go to someplace
where everything
is
new, and I
thought my background could real-
ly contribute to that," said Fisher.
He also said thatlle was interested
in the IBM 3090-Joint Study with
Marist.
Fisher is also a regular con-
tributor to Empire Chess magazine,
a quarterly published by the New
York State Chess Association.
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EDITORIAL
THE
CIRCLE
Bill Johnson,
Editor
Karen Cicero,
Managing Editor
Paul O'Sullivan,
Editorial Page Editor
Chris Landry,
Senior Editor
Steven Murray,
Senior Editor
Lynaire Brust,
Photography Editor
Jay Reynolds,
Sports Editor
Stacey McDonnell,
News Editor
Molly Ward,
News Editor-
Holly Gallo,
Features Editor
Bob Higgins,
Editorial Cartoonist
Kevin
St.
Onge, Business Manager
John Hartsock,
Faculty Adviser
Strategic plan
points direction
The next five years at Marist College
were just outlined in a 75-page report.
It does not sound exciting, but it is
significant nonetheless.
Although many students here now
won't find it relevant, the strategic plan
will carve the exciting near future of the
college.
It
is a comprehensive study that
was badly needed.
After several years of frenzied expan-
sion and questionable priorities, this
project gives definition to the college's
mission.
whether to expand the facility or to
build a new library elsewhere
.
Faculty who want to know how their
budgets will change have been left hang-
ing, too. Several programs were targeted
for emphasis, including business, com-
munications, education, environmental
science, public policy and science. How
much money these programs
will
get and
how
_
much they
will
take away from
other programs is what everyone wants
to know.
MARCH
1, 1990
Before now,
it
has not been clear
where the myriad projects and programs.
were taking us. That has been explain-
ed in the report.
Two sessions have been held to
discuss and criticize the report, which
was drafted by the Strategic Planning
Committee, a group of administrators,
faculty and students that assembled in
·
1988
to study the college's growth in the
next five years.
As yet, there's no answer, ad-
ministrators say. This plan takes a
deliberate but careful approach to the
future. It admits all interests will not be
served in the next five years. After
-
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kill-
ing the nursing program, administrators
don't want to suffer again from such an
unpopular decision, but this plan makes
clear that the money will be invested
Does anybody ca,;Jt
about stu.dent apathy?
selectively.
For a minute there, I
The report cites ambitious goals and thought
.
Woody Allen
admits the college's revenue will increase
was
.
leading the recent
conservatively. That means reallocation protest at Vassar College.
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taking from one program to pay for
·
another- will play
a
key role in the
taq~eted expansion.
Thinking
between
the
lines
.
of that was because
students in this country,
Marist students in par-
ticular, are unwilling to
even stand up to a com-
pany
of
Marist
maintenance carts for
anything.
.
'
The hot topics in the report are
academic programs and
·
the Library.
Although the report is specific when it
refers to enrollm.ent figures, those who
were looking for specific financial com-
mitments to the Library or to academic
programs were frustrated.
Administrators say the plan is intend-
ed to be a guideline, not a prescription.
Others want more. At least the strategic
plan offers a five-year time fra.rne for
completion of its goals. Some of them,
like
a
new dormitory and honors pro-
gram, should happen sooner, but now
there the future is being shaped more
orderly.
After reading the list of
demands that the pro-
testers published, which
included a rabbi and
kosher food.
I half ex-
pected the rebel leader
Paul O'Sullivan
The
·
argument can be
The Library desperately needs to be
expanded; that is generally agreed upon.
At issue is how to continue to improve
the
·
Library until it can be expanded.
The Library is next on line after The
Dyson Center on the list of construction
projects.
It
has not been decided
from the film "Bananas" to get up and say:
"From now on, the official language of
Vassar
will
be
...
Swedish, and everyone must
now change their underwear, every half-
hour."
You left home for this?
But then again, maybe the Vassar pro-
testers should not
be
blamed for the
fact
that
many of their demands have little to do with
Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan's allegedly
racist remark. Maybe the blame really lies
with the whole student community, and not
Tt'rning sludge into sunshine is a perfected
Marist virtue.
The room selection process for the
fall
1990
semester was announced last week, and
it's worthwhile to note the differences bet-
ween the administration's descriptions of the
vari<>us living areas and the harsh realities
of them.
Sophomores snug in their dorms should
know what they're getting into as they look
for an apartment for next year.
Once a penal colony for those of
us
who
caused
more trouble -
and got caught -
than others, the Canterbury Garden Apart-
ments complex is advertised
as
an abode that
"offers a unique experience for the student
who is interested in an independent living
situation within the Poughkeepsie communi-
ty and away from
the
main campus."
The garden -
Eden it is not -
is open
to juniors and seniors and cats and bugs.
Sophomores may live there only if they have
written parental permission and a minimum
grade point average of
2.5. It's a policy pro-
bably designed to make sure only the most
likely
to
sunive are put in that jungle, but
how nicely the administration's motive is
explained.
From the sound of it, Canterbury is so in-
,.;ting that scores of freshmen would wait like
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Vassar.
Editor's
Notebook
The fact that the leaders of the
Vassar
pro-
test used the Moynihan incident to try and
push through their gaggle of demands tells
more about the sad state of student activism
in this country than it does about the irra-
tionality of those students.
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Granted, the demands about the rabbi and
lemmings for a chance to spend their
sophomore year in hell's waiting room.
Bring a plunger, your own screens and a
hot water heater.
The North Road houses, now called
Special Interest Housing, are similarly ex-
clusive. They are available to students "who
desire a quiet atmosphere that
will compli-
ment the experience of the classroom."
A
statement of intent is required.
Canterbury has cats and bugs, but Nonh
Road has squirrels. Several have lived in the
kitchen of one of the apartments there. They
found the accommodations too primitive,
though,
so
they packed up and haven't
been
heard from
in a while. Treat them well,
Leo
Underground.
The squirrels are smaner than the rest of
us
_
They know the future is bleak for the
Nonh Road houses, which
~ill
probably
be
forfeited to the Route 9 expansion in a
fev,
·
years
.
They made it out alive.
the kosher food were a bit out of the
mainstream. Chances are you will not hear
many people chanting, "One, two, three,
four, we don't want your stinking pork
.
"
But for some people, that may indeed be
a serious issue; and equal access to campus
facilities for the handicapped is certainly an
issue wo!'.it people's attention
:
I can't crawl inside anyone's mind
(I
don't
think I would want to), but it seems to me
that the leaders of the Vassar protest, see-
ing
mass
support for one issue, decided that
this was the only time their other concerns
would have a chance to be addressed.
This may
seem
opportunistic of them, but
the real travesty was not that the Vassar
students stooped to this level, but that the
student apathy about campus issues ap-
parently forced them to do
so.
Last summer, when a lone student stood
up to a line of tanks in Tienanmen Square,
Americans marveled at the bravery and for-
titude of the Chinese students_
Maybe
pan
made that students here
and at other colleges are not lazy or
apathetic, they are simply happy with the
way things are. Issues like j1anclicapped ac-
cess
or divestment from South Africa don't
greatly affect the majority of students, so
they don't concern a lot of people.
But I have heard too many students
(myself included) complain about Canter-
bury, commencement speakers, activities, the
,.. Library, construction disrupting
classes,
the
drinking policy and other subjects to believe
that the problem in student apathy is a lack
of issues. That just does not wash.
Perhaps the problem
is
that students don't
know the power that they have. If this is the
case, then the past month's events at
Vassar
College should dispel that belief.
Whether you agree with the Vassar pro-
testers or not about the intended meaning of
Moynihan's remark, the
fact
remains that
the students succeeded in pushing one of the
most powerful men in the state right off cam-
pus.
That took some muscle.
It's understandable that students have in-
ternships or classes or activities that take up
a lot of their time. No one expects anyone
to go and build shanties on the Greystone
lawn right away.
But it is inexcusable that college students
in general and Marist students in particular
show little or
no
concern for their communi-
ty. Whether it's the quality of the food in
the cafeteria or the lack of housing on cam-
pus,
if
we do nothing but complain to our
friends about a problem, then we become a
part
of the problem.
We've all reached a point in our lives that
if we don't do it, then no one is going to do
it
for us.
P:anl O'SuDivan
is
The Circle's political
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VIEWPOINT
'MARCH
1, 1990
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The warped logic of music popularity polls
Last week CBS aired the Grammy Awards
honoring the best of the past year in music.
The Grammys weren't the only music awards
announced last week, though.
Rolling Stone magazine also published the
results of its annual readers poll.
a lot of people are think-
ing about them. This is
very disturbing.
It's
a
little
known
fact
that
"Batdance" (Prince also
made the nominees) to
be
great R&B songs?
Madonna for my choice as most tasteless pig
of the year. Congratulations Millie!
·
The inconsistencies keep coming
.
The
Stones were voted the Comeback of the Year
award .. They were also among the choices for
most unwelcome comeback. By the way, the
comeback award should have gone to the
B-52's. Sorry Mick.
Rolling Stone is considered the premiere
music magazine for the averl,lge music fan,
and the reader's picks showed why.
There are other ex-
amples. Madonna was
chosen the second best
female singer for the past
year by the readers. She
was also chosen the worst
female singer for the
Ed McGarry
It
doesn't get much
better for Best Jazz Ar-
tist. This category was
won by Kenny G. Now I
know
I am hardly a Jazz
expert, and
I
realize that
Kenny G
("G" stands for
Next, Cher was voted the worst-dressed
female rock artist as well she should have
been. But she was also voted the third best-
dressed female rock artist. Huh?
I won't even mention the critics choices
because
all
they do is pick obscure things that
no one has heard of in order to impress so-
meone (not me). If the critics didn't do this,
they would~'t be called critics
.
·
Getting back to the reader's picks, it is not
so much that I disagreed with all of them,
it is just that these picks were so inconsis,
tent. For example, the readers chose my
favorite band, New Kids on the Block, as one
of the five best new American bands.
Then the readers went on to choose The
Kids as the worst band while also awarding
them Worst Single for "Hanging Tough"
and Worst Album of tlie same name.
Now granted, The Kids probably are the
worst band (if you can call them a band)
since Menudo, but how
can
they also be one
of the best new bands at the same time?
What bothers me the most is that whether
people like them or not, this poll proves that
same period. It is just not fair to put such
a fine upstanding citizen
as Madonna
through such an emotional rollercoaster.
Next, the Rolling Stones were given the
award for the best tour of
1989. At the same
time, they were voted as having the third
worst tour of the past year.
I
was fortunate enough to see the Stones
at Shea Stadium back in October and the
people who chose this tour as the worst either
are mad because they couldn't get tickets or
are the same people that voted Paula Abdul
best female singer.
And what about the Best R&B Artist
category? Bobby Brown was the winner of
this category ahead of B.B. King, Anita
Baker and Robert Cray.
Now,
I
ask you, do you really think so-
meone like B.B. King or John Lee Hooker
really consider "My Prerogative" or Prince's
Dorms, dunks and drums:
a
.
fresh tour of campus
With only 80
·
days until graduation re-
maining, I decided to channel my focus on
some of the brighter points of the Marist
community instead of defacing some of the
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more
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obvious discrepancies I
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and wen
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It certainly appears to be a foot race to the
finish between the Dyson Center completion
and
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the Donnelly Hall renovation.
Donnelly
will
almost certainly start to be
dubbed with the moniker, "The Millenium
Falcon," though its uncertain if Han Solo
·
or Chewbacca
will rush to the scene and save
the day.
Leo and Sheehan which looked so
breathtakingly appealing from the new coats
of paint, are looking exceedingly
"Poughkeepsieish" with the paint peeling.
Why don't we do the sensible thing and
place one simple call to the experts, Garden
State Brickface and Stucco. Hey, if it's good
enough for Caldor, it should
be
good enough
for Marist.
Perhaps we could get decisively innovative
and have Bob Vila and company put together
a "This Old, yet terribly inefficient and
altogether unappealing to the eye, Dor-
mitory."
It would be a first. Serving as a role model
and bringing oodles of media attention with
it, this historic event
will change the entire
dormitory business as we know it.
Hats off to the crack ace pla1;mers and
builders of the Gartland hoops courts.
Fellas, next time maybe employ the usage
of a measuring device, maybe a ruler, or tape
measure. Regulations say the basket should
be 10 feet from the ground.
And anytime you want to add two more
baskets on the other lined out court, feel free.
To the rocket scientist who thought it
would be funny to dunk on the shoner hoop
there and break it: Thanks.
If it weren't for
Wes Zahnke
A
day
in
the
life
mallet heads like you those crack ace builders
would be out of jobs.
The 21 Club continues to impress and ex-
pand which is heart-wrenching.
Why isn't this a weekly event? It's good
clean fun and serves as a school bonding type
of deal. Isn't that what we want to promote?
Congratulations to the men's hoops
squad. You guys played with heart and in-
tensity through difficult and trying times.
Keep up the work ethic and bring home the
NEC title.
Also,
I
don't think I'm off base in saying
that we're the only college in the nation to
have a
60
year old drummer in the pep band.
Though it's uncertain if he's a frosh, it's
time to expand his repetoire and break away
from the Christmas tunes at halftime.
I'm rather anxious to see what blockbuster
group we're going to get for spring weekend.
With Paul Strowe making his triumphant
return to the theater, opening for Livingston
Taylor, perhaps thatwould
be
the ideal time
to pop the question. Hell, he knows the area
and he comes cheap.
Well, maybe we could just get an Indian
snake charmer or something.
The scent of River Day is in the air ...
underclassmen beware ...
Wes Zahnke is The Circle's humor
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"get me a last name") hit the music scene
hard this year, but he finished ahead of the
likes of Miles Davis and David Sanborn.
These men are
Jazz
gods. Davis and San-
born built the school that Kenny G. now
Works in.
If
it weren't for Davis and San-
born, Kenny G. would be the chaperone and
sixth member of "New Kids on the Block."
Get the picture.
AJbum covers usually do not mean a whole
lot but this is one the category for one of my
biggest gripes. Rolling Stone readers chose
the Stone's "Steel Wheels" as the worst
album cover followed by Madonna's "Like
a Prayer."
Evidently no one say the album cover of
Millie Jackson's latest release. This album,
entitled "Back to the ST," shows Millie sit-
ting on a toilet, panties down to her ankles,
relieving herself. With this she shot past
But this is trivial compared to my main
problem. Cher is a rock artist?
The readers even messed up the Best New
Foreign Band category. They chose Milli
Vanilli. Is Milli Vanilli really
a band? Ah ..
.
forget that question.
I really don't care.
Anyway, they finished ahead of the Fine
Young Cannibals (who aren't new, anyway),
Roxette and Soul
II Soul. How can this
happen?
Well, I guess all of this goes to show you
that the average person just isn't well enough
in tune with the music scene to make such
imperative decisions. Rolling Stone needs to
call on someone who knows what they arc
doing .. .like me!
Ed McGarry is The Circle's entertainment
columnist.
Across the sea, poetry
amid wind and w
·
aves
My first impression is of harmony. I am
standing at the edge of a cliff over the Atlan-
tic looking back at miles of green fields. The
land is quiet.
Only the intrusion of the waves into the
rocky cove below me disturbs the silence.
I
.
am standing on Dingle Peninsula in
County Kerry, the westernmost point in
Europe, and I feel like I'm standing at the
edge of the world.
The terrain is punctuated with rows of
short, grey, stone walls that flow and buckle
in synchronization with the land's surface.
Cows and sheep polka dot two or three of
the fields in the quilted slopes. The Three
Sisters, triplet mountains, throw shadows on
the pastures below them.
The smell is clean, but salty, and when I
tum my head away from the wind,
I can just
make out the faint odor of burning coal that
has drifted from the white farmhouse off in
the distance. It is the only house I can see
.
Space. There is so much space. "This is
it," I say. "This is what I came here to see."
A gull is screaching and my shoes sink in-
to the soft earth along the clifftop, in the nar-
row space between the green meadow and the
brown craggy rock.
Although the clouds are moving quickly
overhead, they don't leave. But it doesn't
'. matter that the sun is hidden; the scene is
satisfying enough without it.
I can feel the moisture in the wind on my
cheeks and chin -
the moisture that keeps
this land so rich and these fields so green.
This place seems undisturbed by
technology. Modern advancement's only
visible signs are the three sagging electrical
wires, hanging on decaying wooden posts
along the windy dirt road that leads away
from the farmhouse.
My eye ignores them momentarily. Even
that human-made dirt road, like the stone
walls, adjusts to the landscape, blending with
it, and disappears ove the hill.
I have to squint to convince myself that
I'm not looking at a stage-play backdrop.
Those stone walls appear so natural at first
that it's hard to believe farmers placed each
rock indi ... idually to di.,ide their pastures. But
they look carefully placed; as if with respect
for the land's uneven shape, \\-ith its hills and
Ilse Martin
slopes.
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Dublin
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This isn't humanity versus nature; it's a
harmonization, a compromise between the
two -
or at least it seems that way to me.
Out here away from the smog, away from
the cramped city housing, and even away
from the apparent urbanness of small villages
a few miles away, a farming family is living
off this land.
I
want to bring everyone to the edge of this
cliff, the edge of the world. Its stillness and
beauty are unique, and
I
wonder why
everyone is living back in Dublin.
On second thought, it's emptiness is what
is so inviting, and I should like it to stay "off
the beaten path."
I couldn't possibly capture this scene in a
photograph, not even in words. And at one
point I almost stopped myself from snapp-
.
ing the shutter because I knew the end result
wouldn't do justice.
It was almost like that hesitation you have
before opening a perfectly-wrapped gift, or
crushing newly-fallen snow with your foot-
print -
that once you did, it would never
be the same.
I suppose the view would be different
through everyone else's eyes, though.
I don't know what you'd see, but I can't
imagine
that
you'd see anything different
from what I'm seeing.
Anais Nin once wrote that we don't see
things as they are, we see things as we are.
The clouds are spitting rain now. and for
a moment the sun shines through. I turn back
toward the ocean and a rainbow is glowing
there.
I've found my
pot
o· gold.
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dropped from the committee, and
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the committee receive the informa-
dismissal.
The words "academic proba-
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Molloy stressed that while
tion" may strike fear in the heart performance from the student's
dismissal is usually a last resort,
of most students, but in terms of teachers and
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mentor;
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Marist must try to keep up its
academics it's a necessary service,
The committee reviews every stu-
academic standards
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according to Rosemary Molloy, dent who has a cumulative grade-
"If a student is not making
director of Student Academic point average below 2.0, and every
satisfactory progress towards
Affairs.
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a
2.0 for
graduation, and it doesn't seem as
Most students at Marist do not any semester
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though the student is fully commit-
have an accurate perception of
When a student falls below a 2
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ted to improvement
,
than dismissal
what academic probation
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is, he may receive a warning or be put
is an option."
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Molloy said.
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on probation by the committee. A
A student who is dismissed is not
"It is not a punishment," she student on probation is required
to
eligible
to
re-enroll at
Marist
for
at
said.
meet regularly with his advisor and
least one full semester. During this
"Academic probation is a service mentor. The student's mentor may
time the student must do some
offered
by
the Office of Student also require the student to attend
work at another college, and
Academic Affairs. It is in the best study halls and/or limit the number
demonstrate to the committee that
interests of tne students for them of credits for which the student
he is willing to work towards
to realize that they need to put may register.
academic improvement.
some extra time into their studies,"
A student on academic proba-
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I
want
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Three faculty members form the participate in extracurricular ac-
Office of Student Academic Af-
committee that determines, on an tivities
,
including varsity sports
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fairs are means of helping. There
individual basis, what guidance is After a student reaches the second
aren't any set standards. The com-
needed for a student. The commit-
semester of academic probation
,
he
mittee takes each case and
tee is set up on a rotating basis so becomes ineligible for any extracur-
evaluates it individually," said
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John Connolly, a bookstore
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back toward the bookstore and
assumed that someone was making
a pickup before he realized there
was no driver.
Connolly said he then saw Nor-
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to the hospital. Sheahan Hall
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Department, and Jane O'Brien,
.
director of health services, were
also at the scene, according to
Leary.
Leary said that Norman had
been illegally parked and that
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ticket cars parked illegally behind
the Post Office. "We've been
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Icemen
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8-BALL ...
Continued from page 12
Seniors Ted Sharpenter, Joey O'Connor and Celestine played their last
game as a
·
member of the Red Foxes.
"We just didn't have it tonight," Magarity said.
"It
was a tough way
to end the season."
"It's.tough for them, they gave their all and they were hard workers,
we wanted to send them out in style," Magarity said.
by
JAY REYNOLDS
Sports Editor
The Marist.hockey team closes
out its regular season this weekend
with conference games on each day
-
and each has meaning.
Marist hosts Montclair Saturday
night at the Mid-Hudson
.
Civic
Center, marking the Red Foxes'
final home game of the season .
.
They then travel to Wagner Sunday
.
to try and avenge the only con-
ference loss they have aH season.
Marist needs to win ~nly one of
the two games to clinch first place
in its division -
the Empire Divi-
sion
.
of the Metro Collegiate
Hockey Confernce.
If the Red Foxes lose both
games, they would be in a tie for
first with Wagner. However,
Wagner would win the tiebreaker
of head-to-head competition.
Marist assistant captain Kevin
Walsh said that the Red Foxes are
looking at the games with a broad
perspective.
"It's the final weekend so it's a
big weekend," he said. "But we
want to get up a head of steam to
head into the playoffs. We
definately want to be on the rise.'•
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The Red Foxes will not have to
force themselves to raise their
energy level against Wagner - they
have been waiting a while for this
game, according-to Walsh.
''Since the first game of the year
we've wanted to play Wagner
again," he said. "There's a lot of
emotion going into this game."
That first game of the season was
a
7-4
loss to Wagner. An incident
involving fans arid an off-duty
police officer led police to clear the
Basketball
Men's
Marist 81
Mt. St
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Mary
75
Marisf99
LIU74
NEC
Tournament
Wagner 69
Marist 63
Record:
17-11 overall, 10-6
conference
Women
Marist 75
LIU 56
Marist 83
St. Francis (NY) 58
Mt.
St.
Mary 88
Marist
66
Record
as
of
2/26: 16-9 overall,
11-4 conference
Next game: Sat.
vs. FDU
(A)
. Hockey
Fordham 4
Marist 3
Marist 10
NYUO
Record:
11-4 overall, 7-1
conference
Next game: Sat.
vs.
Montclair
(H)
and
Sun.
vs.
Wagner (A)
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stands at the Mid~Hudson Civic
Center between the second and
third periods.
Marist was leading
4-i
~t
the end
of the second period.
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Walsh said the Red Foxes now
want to avenge that loss.
.
"We want to prove that it was
a fluke," he said. "We know we
can beat them. We have put a lot
·
of pressure on ourselves -
we
should have won that game."
Marist first has to get by Mont-
clair on Saturday .
"It is a pretty big game for us,"
•
said junior deferiseman Steve
Waryas. "We
really want to beat
''We really want to
beat Montclair so we
don't have to play for
it all on Sunday
against Wagner."
Montclair so we don't have to play
for it all
<,m
Sunday against
Wagner."
· "We
_are
just going to play our
game against Montclair," Walsh
said. "The only role they can play
now is the spoiler."
"We had a letdown in the third
period," he said. "We can't let that
happen this time."
The Red Foxes are heading into
the big weekend off a
4-3 loss at
Fordham University last Saturday.
Waryas s?id the main problem at
Fordham was the penalties the Red
Foxes were called for.
"Penalties were definately a pro-
blem for us," he said. "They real-
ly knocked our momentum off."
Three of Fordham's four goals
came on power plays.
Scoring for the Red Foxes were
Mike Lutolf (assisted by Steve
Murray), John Walker (Scott Ken-
dall) and Scott Brown (Andy
Giberti).
Marist held a lead in each period,
but Fordham scored in the final
minute of both the first and second
periods, taking Marist out of its
game.
"Those goals made it
a
little
hard to get going at the beginning
of the next period," Waryas said.
"We knew we still had a chance
of winning," Walsh said. "So we
still had momentum - we still felt
confident."
Last Thursday, the Red Foxes
scored a 10-0 mercy-rule win over
New York University. The game
was stopped after the second
period.
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The ~ed
,
Foxes ended the regular season last Saturday by posting an
81-75
~m. over the Mt. St. Mary Mountaineers at Emmitsburg, Md.
Earher m the season, Mount St. Mary's handled the Marist pressure
11nd wa.s able to get on track from the outside by shooting 73 percent
from three point range
(11-15).
For the first time all year, Magarity kept the press off and the Red
Foxes played tough half court defense, led by Bobby Reasbeck who was
re~p~nsible for controlling Kevin Booth who tallied 30 points i~ the first
meetmg, a
100-89
Mount St. Mary's win.
Reasbeck stepped up and so did his teammates as the Red Foxes played
perhaps their best overall game of the year.
"We knew what we had to do," said Magarity. "We were just ready
to play."
Curt!s Celesti_ne con!inued h!s dominance on the inside by scoring a
team-h1g~
20
~mts
while grabbmg a career-high
17
rebounds. Andy Lake
also regamed his hot hand. The freshman scored
12
of his
16
points in
the second half. Paterno and Sharpenter added 14 and
IO
points
respectively.
. "This was a great effo~t, everyone contributed.
I hope it carries us
mto the tournament," said Magarity.
Last Thursday, the Red Foxes downed Long Island University
99-74
at the McCann Center. .
Led by 19 points from Reggie Gaut, five Red Foxes scored in double
figures.
O'Connor got Marist on track early by scoring
17
points in the first
hal_f. The senior connected five of seven 3-pointers and handed out four
assists.
Pla~ing in their last regular season home game, seniors O'Connor,
Celesune and Sharpenter were with their
family
in a pre-game ceremony.
The Red Foxes closed out the regular season with a
17-10
overall record
with a
10-6
mark in the Northeast Conference -
the only team in the
NEC
to beat each of the other teams at least once.
Junior captain George Siegrist had career highs in both scoring and
rebounds. The Hyde Park native tallied
15
points and grabbed
11
rebounds.
Wagner will pl!3-Y ~onmouth o_n ~riday in one semi-final game while
h_ost Rob~rt Morns will take ~n Fairleigh Dickinson who downed
St. Fran-
cis
(PA)
m the other quaterfmal game. The championship game will be
broadcast live by ESPN on Saturday at 9:30om.
The Red Foxes won a
6-4
deci-
sion over Montclair earlier this
season, but it was not that easy of
a win, according to Walsh.
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Marist was leading
6-1
at the end
of the second period but Montclair
scored three unanswered goals in
the third.
Galarneau led the team in scoring
for the second straight game with
18
points.
Marist now has only two games
left in the regular season.
This past Tuesday the team
visited Cornell University in a non-
conference game. Results were not
available at press time.
The Lady Red Foxes complete
their regular season schedule with
a road game at Fairleigh Dickinson
University Saturday. Marist
defeated FDU at home on Feb. 3,
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Season. Ends
Cagers Jail out
of
NEC
tourney
by
MIKE O'FARRELL
Staff Writer
Any hopes for a trip to the Northeast Conference final four were lost
Tuesday night as the Wagner College Seahawks downed the Marist Red
Foxes 69-63 at the McCann Center in a Northeast Conference quater-
final game.
.
After leading by five points at the half (34-29), Marist came out flat
in the final 20 minutes and was unable to get on track offensively.
"We stalled in the second half," said Marist coach Dave Magarity.
"We took some bad shots and were unable to come up with big plays
-
it. was a tough loss for us."
Wagner was lead by point guard Billy Kurisko who scored 22 points
and hit some key shots down the stretch.
"Kurisko did it all," Magarity said. "He took the game over and made
some really big buckets for them."
"Billy did a great job for us," said Wagner coach Tim Capstraw. "We
didn't have a delay garii.e and he kept resetting the offense and that allow-
ed us to take some time off of the clock."
Wagner was able to control the tempo of the game and that was a _key
for the Seahawks.
"They ran a real nice half court offense against us," Magarity said.
"This wasn't the same team that we beat here earlier."
The Red Foxes had downed the Seahawks 78-61 earlier in the season.
Marist was led by Steve Paterno who tallied 16 points. However, 11
of those came in the first half as the junior swinginan took just three
shots in the second half.
"We covered (Paterno) really well on the perimeter in the second half,
he really wasn't able to get of good shots," Capstraw said. "We were
beaten on the perimeter in the first half and we came back strong defen-
sively in the second half."
·
MARCH-1,
1990
Lady· cagers
clinch second
in NEC
by.
CHRIS SHEA
Staff- Writer
The good news is the Marist
women's basketball team has clin-
ched a second place finish in the
Northeast
conference
establishing itself as the only team
which is capable of threatening first
place Mount St. Mary's in the post-
season tournament.
The bad news is the Lady Red
Foxes have lost twice to Mount St.
Mary's by an average margin of 21
points.
Last Saturday, at Mount St.
Mary's, Marist was easily defeated
by the score 88-66.
The loss dropped the Lady Red
Foxes
to
a 16-9 record on the
season, 11-4 in the NEC.
"They're an exceptional team,"
said Marist head coach Ken
Babineau. "In all honesty, I didn't
feel we played that bad. (Mt. St.
Mary's) has more offensive guns
than we do -
we just couldn't stop
them."
Leading the offense for Mount
St. Mary's was center Vanessa
Blair.
Blair turned in a dominating per-
formance against Marist, scoring a
career high 30 points grabbing 10
rebounds and blocking four shots.
The last Marist lead was two points with just over seven minutes re-
maining. However, the well went dry as the Red Foxes only hit two field
goals the rest of the way.
"I
felt
good going into the last five minutes," Magarity said. "It was
a tight game and we haven't lost a close game here all year."
Blair hit
11
of her 15 shots from
Circle /
photo
by Dan Weber
the field as well as holding Marist
center Ruth Halley to three points
Joining Paterno in double figures was Reggie Gaut, who had 14, and
Curtis Celestine who added 12 points and pulled in seven rebounds.
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and four rebounds.
Marist guard Reggie
aut goes up over
agner s
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Jen O'Neil led the Lady Red
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Fredrick for two of his
14
points in Tuesday's loss.
Foxes in scoring with
13
points -
Swimme~s set records; · grab first title
by
CHRIS SHEA
. Staff Writer
There are many words which are capable of
describing the showing which the Marist men's
swim team gave during _ last weekend's
Metropolotin Swimming and Diving Conference
Tournament.
Among them · are dominating and
overpowering.
There is, however, another which even bet-
ter sums up the team's accomplishments,
Champions.
The swim team set 14 new school records,
won five ciut of five :swim relays, and broke
seven conference records in the course of out-
pointing runner-up Iona College by close to 200
points -
l,303-1,133. Glassboro (N.J.)
Universtity finished a distant third with 653
points.
.
·
Marist coach Larry VanWagner, who won
coach of the year for the second straight time,
said the 13-year road to the team's first-ever
conference title has been a tough one.
"When we first joined this conference in
1978, we came in 21st out of21 teams," he said.
"It was a long, slow process to build up to this
success. Over the last five years we moved up
one place each year. Last year we were second
-
this year it was our turn.''
Senior swimmer Joe Bubel led the team once
again and for the second straight year, he was
named most valuable swimmer of the cham-
pionship meet.
Bubel won the 100- and 200-meter and the
100-meter breastroke. He set conference records
in each
as
well.
Bubel also participated in each of the five
relays. Marist won every relay in the meet -
setting new conference records in four of them.
Winning all ·five relays was a·goal of Van-
Wagner's even before the tournament began.
. "I really feel winning all five relays was this
team's greatest accomplishment of the
weekend," he said. "It truly shows how domi-
nant we were."
Scott Tummins and Brink Hartman. joined
Hubel ~-. conference champions.
Tummins defended his title in the SO-meter
freestyle for the second time, covering the
distance in 21.41 seconds -
a school record.
Hartman shaved seven seconds off his old
school record in the 400-meter individual
medley, swimming the event in 4:18.13.
Senior Todd Prentice placed -third in the
I-meter.diving event and second in the 3-meter
dive.
Mike
Carr also placed impressively with
a seventh place finish in the 1-meter, and a fifth
place finish in the 3-meter event.
The championship marked
an
end of an era
for three seniors: Prentice, Bubel and Mark
Levie,
Van Wagner said that although quantitative-
ly it may not seem like a big loss, qualitatively
there is a good deal of talent leaving.
Tummins, Chris Prauda, Prentice, and Bubel
will continue their individual careers this
weekend at the Eastern Intercollegiate Cham-
pionships to be held at West Point this weekend.
• 11 in the first half.
Danielle Galarneau and Nancy
Holbrook were the only other
Marist players to teach double
figures; with 12 and 10 points
respectively.
Galarneau also led the team in
rebounding with nine.
The loss snapped a three-game
winning streak for the Lady Red
Foxes.
Last Tuesday, Marist soundly·
defeated St. Francis (N.Y.) 83-58.
Galarneau led the team in scor-
ing with 15.
Freshman Charlene Fields add-
ed 12 points off the bench in just
10 minutes of playing time - con-
necting on six of eight shots from
the floor.
Last Thursday, the Lady Red
Fox squad travelled to Long Island
University looking for their third
conference win in a row .
Marist had little trouble, as it
downed LIU by 19 points - 75-56.
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11
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He's the one who should be Marist's MVP
What a way to go.
After a season that no one ex-
pected the basketball team to have,
the Red Foxes fall to sixth-place
Wagner
in
the quarterfinal game,: of
the
Northeast · conference
tournament.
Who would have thought that
when it was
all
over the team would
post a 17-11 record.
At the beginning of the season,
most thought it would be Marisi in
sixth place rather than Wagner.
One of the main reasons most
felt the team would not do that well
this season was the lack of a domi-
nant player that has been so
prevalent in the recent past.
It was only a couple of years ago
that Marist was sporting an
unbeatable international team.
In the 1986-87 season, the Red
Foxes went 20-10 under coach
Dave Magarity. They won the
ECAC Metro conference title and
went to the
NCAA tournament.
Marist presented a lineup that in-
cluded 7-foot-3 Rik Smits from
Holland, 7-footer Rudy Bourgarel
from France, 6-foot-11-inch
Miroslav
Pecarski
from
Yugoslavia, Peter Krasovec from
Hungary and Drafton Davis from
the U.S.
Not too many people would have
argued that Smits, who now plays
with the Indiana Pacers,
was
the
Red Foxes' most valuable player
for that season.
This year, however, Marist not
only did not have the standout
player, its tallest players were
6-foot-9 -
Paul Faber, who
averaged just over three minutes a
game and Tom Fitzsimons, who
has been academically ineligible
since January.
Still, the Red Foxes managed to
win 17 games.
Starters like Steve Paterno (14.2
points, 4.2 rebounds per game),
Curtis Celestine (9.9 ppg, 7.9 rpg)
and Reggie Gaut (10.9 ppg, 4.7
rpg) obviously gave the Red Foxes
a lift when they played.
Without a player to lift the team
when things were going slowly,
however, there would have been no
way for Marist to have the success
that it has had this year.
Thursday
Morning
Quarterback
Increase his playing time and,
without a doubt, his numbers will
rise.
Henderson really began to lift
the team just before they traveled
to the Hartford Hawks Unlimited
Tournament in December.
Following
his
performance there
(21 points, seven rebounds in two
games)
in
Hartford -
which which
Jay
Reynolds
included being named to the
all-
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - tournament team -
many thought
That's why, for as valuable as
Paterno, Celestine and Gaut were,
they should not be the team's MVP
and Rod Henderson should.
The 6-foot-5-inch forward ap-
peared in 26 of Marist's 27 games
but did not stan once yet nearly
every time he stepped on the court,
he lifted the team's performance.
. His contributions did not stand
out in the team's statistics like
Patcrno's or Celestine's.
Henderson averaged 7.9 points
per game and 3. 7 rebounds in his
average 21.5 minutes of play.
he may be starting by the end of the
season.
Those tournament games were
the third and fourth for Marist and
had they not had such a good
showing, much of the team's spirit
may have been diminished for the
remainder of the season.
Going into Hartford, the Red
Foxes had crushed Mount St. Vin-
cent and upset George Mason.
Still, most thought that was a
fluke and that Marist would return
to the world of mediocrity soon
enough.
The Hanford Hawks Unlimited
Tournament turned that around
however, as Marist downed
Drex:
el
in
overtime but then lost to Hart-
ford by one point in a game the
Red Foxes should have won.
Each time Henderson
stepped
on
the court this season, the Red Foxes
raised their performance level a
notch.
Without Henderson, the Red
Foxes would not have won 17
games this year.
* * •
On the same note, much has to
be said about the job Marist coach
Dave Magarity did this season.
He took a mediocre team and led
them to a more-than-mediocre
record.
It is no excuse for the showing
against Wagner, but he brought the
team farther than anyone would
have expected.
Magarity seemed to push just
about all the right buttons this
season and he should -
and pro-
bably will -
be name the NEC
coach of the year.
Jay Reynolds
is
The
arcle's
sports
editor.


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